Links & Sources

Sources

 

Jonathan King

Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing.  This is a biography of Alec Campbell of the Australian 15th Battalion.  He joined at only 16 yeaqrs of age.

Max Arthur

Forgotten Voices of The Great War

Bruce I. Gudmundsson

Stormtroop Tactics

Imperial War Museum

Official History, Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1918

Sir Ian Hamilton

His Final Despatch

E.Y. Priestman

“With a B-P Scout in Gallipoli”, some letters home from a subaltern in the 6th Battalion, York and Lancs.

General James Jack

His diary

Robin Neillands

The Great War Generals on The Western Front, 1914 - 18

Philip Warner

The Battle of Loos

Lyn Macdonald

1915, The Death of Innocence

Last Post Association

At the going down of the sun.  A book giving a short description of the deaths of 365 soldiers who died in Flanders Fields.  An excellent book.

Lyn Macdonald

To the Last Man. Spring 1918

Trevor Pidgeon

The Tanks at Flers.  A two volume set of accounts, photos and maps. very extensive.

David Fletcher (editor)

Tanks and Trenches.  First hand accounts of tank warfare in WW1

F. Mitchell, MC

“Tank Warfare”, the story of the Tanks in the Great War.

Edmund Blunden

“Undertones of War”, an excellent account of his experience as a young officer at the front.

Military Operations, Egypt and Palestine.

The Official History of this theatre.

Battalion histories

Thanks for the help of the Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham.

Martin Middlebrook

The Kaiser’s Battle

Tim Coates uncovered editions

The Dardanelles Commission 1914 - 16

Philip J. Haythornthwaite

Gallipoli 1915.  Osprey Campaign series.

H Cecil & PH Liddle joint editors

Facing Armageddon. The First World War Experienced.

The War Budget Illustrated

A weekly periodical produced during the war. Cost 3 old pence. 

Henry Williamson’s novels; How dear is life’, ‘Love and the Loveless’ & ‘A test to destruction’.

Novels based on his own time in the trenches.  Do read them, excellent

‘A Patriot’s Progress’, edited by Anne Williamson

From the diaries of Henry Williamson.

Sir Basil Liddell Hart

History of the First World War

Max Plowman

A Subaltern on the Somme.

 

 

Links

 

http://www.pals.org.uk/

Andrew Jackson’s excellent site for the Accrington Pals, especially the Battle of Serre. This was part of the July 1st, 1916, Somme offensive.

www.1914-1918.net

An excellent site on the Great War

www.avrilwilliams.com

Some shots of the preserved trenches and the cellar at Avril’s tea rooms in Auchonvillers

www.battlefield-tours.com

A battlefield tour site run by James Power.

~http://w1.865.telia.com/~u86517080/Batt lefieldArchaeology/ArkeologENG.html

I took the photo of the Hooge crater from this site

 

 

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